I am a graduate student at the University of Michigan.  My research examines how macroeconomic conditions affect household well-being, with a focus on inflation and consumption and interests extending also to employment, income, and wealth.  

Prior to graduate school, I worked as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board in the Household and Business Spending section.  My work supporting this section's consumption tracking initiatives, as well as the research support I now provide to the Re-Engineering Statistics using Economic Transactions project, have applied novel techniques including machine learning and natural language processing to convert Big Data into better real-time measures of key economic indicators like consumption and inflation.

I am on the 2024-2025 job market.

Email: oflahekj@umich.edu
Fields: macroeconomics, labor economics